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Britain has moved a long way from the 1970s, when mass walkouts crippled public services from grave-digging to trash collection and hastened the decline of industries such as shipbuilding.
U.K. Public-Sector Strike Has an Uneven Impact Alistair MacDonald 2011
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And the dirt under my fingernails is from gardening, not grave-digging.
Essay by Tess Gerritsen, author of The Apprentice and The Surgeon 2010
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The Birmingham case, for example, involved comparing female care workers with male employees working in fields as diverse as grave-digging and rubbish removal.
Equality payout for female cleaners in Birmingham will lead to more losers than winners 2010
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It's cheap beer, but cold you welcome that rushing hiss and the following long drink of chilly wetness washing away the parched, dust dry, cotton mouth of grave-digging in the desert sun
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Four workers at a historic black cemetery near Chicago are facing felony charges in a grisly grave-digging scheme.
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It's cheap beer, but cold you welcome that rushing hiss and the following long drink of chilly wetness washing away the parched, dust dry, cotton mouth of grave-digging in the desert sun
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Four workers at a historic black cemetery in Chicago are facing felony charges in a grisly grave-digging scheme.
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The sexton was a tall thin man, emaciated by years and by privations; his body was bent habitually by his occupation of grave-digging, and his eye naturally inclined downward to the scene of his labours.
Castle Dangerous 2008
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The chief blinked; he had no idea when the last two had left their grave-digging jobs.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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The chief blinked; he had no idea when the last two had left their grave-digging jobs.
REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008
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